Movies In The Park - The Hygienic Art Park - Across From Our Store
This Wednesday night - July 30 @ 8 p.m. - NO CHARGE
LAST WEEK WAS RAINED OUT
So - 1964 My Fair Lady - Starring Audrey Hepburn & Rex Harrison
Will be screened this week
Have dinner at Brie & Bleu or order up a beautiful picnic basket, and then stroll across the street to the park and watch the movie.
Or just grab your favorite blanket and a bottle of wine from our cellar for a great summer night.
NEW MOVIE EVERY WEDNESDAY.
Order your basket now.
860.437.2474
Coming up: 'Rebel Without A Cause' (1955).
···Speaking Of Movies - The Garde Arts Center has just released their schedule of films for the New London Summer Film Festival. Take a look at THE LIST.
Start your evening with us, order dinner from our new menu and then stroll up to The Garde. It does not get any better than this. Festival runs: August 6-17.
Wine Tasting Please Join UsFriday August 1 - 6-9 p.m. - No ChargeCan't Make It To The Tasting? - Order it now - click on the photos
It's not easy drinking wine all week long in order to find just the right mix for the Friday night tasting. But week after week, Jim Morrison, Dave Anderson, and the rest of our team - anyone that has an empty glass in their hands - step up and make the sacrifice. Here are the choices for this week:
1 - Bodega Villar Oro de Castilla Verdejo 2006 $12
The unique soil profile of the vineyards of Bodega Villar, make the wines from these vineyards distinct from other vineyards in the region. The soils are deep, with a thick surface of gravel and sand topsoil that provides good water drainage and a dry-healthy environment for ripening grapes.
The subsoil is composed of active limestone and water retaining clay, conserving moisture during the dry, active growing season of the vines. Soil poor in organic matter forces lower yields, which in turn, increases the intensity of the flavors of the fruit and the resulting wine.
Winemaker and vineyard manager Pablo Villar is so serious about preserving this unique terror that he insists that the fruit be harvested at night to maintain freshness and vibrancy of the grapes. The wine is full of tropical fruit aromas, with notes of mango and grapefruit on the palate. Perfect for lighter fare, such as seafood and shellfish.
2 - Pierre Luneau Papin Clos des Allees Muscadet Sevre & Maine 2006 $16
The much beloved Clos des Briods Muscadet is running out, we have just gotten our last case for the summer. Dave was distraught and inconsolable, but I told him that there was more Muscadet out there, we just had to find it, and then he could learn to love again.
I called the distributor to see if they had another great, inexpensive, crisp French white wine, and they tried to sell me a Shiraz with a Monkey on it so I hung up the phone. Then I remembered our old friend and importer Joe Dressner and the Clos des Allees, old vines, aged sur lie AND a gold medal in Paris 2007.
This is what Joe had to say about the wine, "Pierre and Monique Luneau-Papin head this 30-hectare estate in Le Landreau, in the heart of Muscadet country, where small hamlets dot a landscape of vineyards on low hills. Their estate, also known as Domaine Pierre de la Grange, has been in existence since the early 18th century when it was already planted with Melon de Bourgogne, the Muscadet varietal. Pierre and Monique are the eighth generation of winemakers in the family. Pierre is a genial, low-key, distracted professor type.
Joe Dressner
He's the winemaker and vineyard work supervisor. His wife Monique, lively, energetic and equally genial, is the business manager.Muscadet is an area where, unfortunately, a lot of undistinguished bulk wine is produced. Because of the size of their estate, and of the privileged terroir of the villages of Le Landreau, Vallet and La Chapelle Heulin, the Luneau family has opted for producing smaller cuvées from their several plots, which are always vinified separately so as to reflect their terroir's particular character. The soil is mainly micaschist and gneiss, some plots are a mix of silica, volcanic rocks and schist. The estate has a high proportion of old vines, 40 years old on average, up to 65 years of age.
The harvest is done by hand, also a rarity in the region, to avoid any oxidation before pressing. There is an immediate light débourbage (separation of juice from gross lees), then a 4-week fermentation at 68 degrees, followed by 6 months of aging in stainless-steel vats on fine lees. This is the classic Muscadet-sur-lie process, where the wine is kept on its lees, with a fair amount of CO2 as protection, until bottling in the spring following the harvest. The only modern technique used here is macération pelliculaire (maceration of lightly crushed berries before pressing), which varies in proportion according to the cuvées."
3 - Ch de Cazenove Bordeaux Superieur 2005 $16
Located in the the heart of the Margaux region of Bordeaux, Ch de Cazenove has always produced great Bordeaux at a surprisingly good price. With the 2005 vintage comes even better wine than last year and still at the very reasonable price of $16 a bottle. The wine is two thirds Merlot to one third Cabernet Sauvignon, and has both intense varietal expression as well as Bordeaux typicity.
Structured without being lean, even in it's youth, the wine has a richness that never crosses the line into the fat, ponderous renderings of so many of the "Bordeaux Style" wines of other regions. This is real wine, "Mise en bouteille au Chateau" by the family Cazenove, not just another brand or Pseudo-Estate.
4 - Gaja Sito Moresco 2005 $54
 From the Mind of Angelo Gaja, one of the great winemakers of the world.
This "Super-Piedmontese" is a blend of Nebbiolo, Merlot and Cabernet and like all Gaja wines paradoxically drinks well in it's youth and yet has the potential to age for years.
The three varietals are vinified separately and then woven together into a wine of supreme balance, integration and intensity of fruit.
Aged 18 months in oak, 6 months in the bottle, and two months in our cellar, come try a beautiful, well rested wine from the hand of a master.
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